Series 3 > Minutes of the Synod of Argyll, 1639-1651 (1652-1661) > 1639-1651

Letter to
Maclain.
202 SYNOD OF ARGYLL
the next synod, and that out of the vaccancy of the presbytery
of Kilmore.
As also ordains 100 merks to be given to umquhil Duncan
Me Eachen, minister,1 his relict untill the next synod for
supplying their great necessity.
Ordains ten bolls victuall to John Beaton, second son to
John Beaton, physician,2 living within the parish of Kil-
vickewan, for maintaining him at the grammer schooll of
Inverary to be payd out of the said parish of Kilvickewan.
Ordains a letter to be written to Maclain to deliver the
vaccand stipends of the kirks of Mull and Icollumkill to the
moderator of the presbytery of Kilmore, and the moderator to
bring them to the next synod.
Ane letter to be written to the presbytery of Sky, reproving
them for their absence from this and the former synod, and
requiring them to keep the next meeting and bring their
presbytery books with them, and to be ready then to compt
and reckon for the vacand stipends of that presbytery and also
the assembly finds their letter of excuse insufficient.
After reading of the petition of the Laird of Straqr and
others, desiring the kirk of Kilmaglass to be declared vaccand,
The Laird of Ardkinglass, for himself and in name of these
who have the tythes of him of these lands, protested that if
the desire of the petition be granted and the said kirk declared
vaccand that it shall not be prejudiciall to them to brook the
teinds untill a minister be gotten to the said kirk.
The assembly Declares the said kirk of Kilmaglass to be
vaccand, and that the parishioners thereof are in a capacity
to give a call to any minister, and the protestation foresaid
made by the Laird of Ardkinglass is admitted.
Sess. 5.
The assembly, finding that the persons underwritten whose
names are in the following list do yet remain under the
1 There is no record of a minister Duncan Mac Eachainn. If Mac
Eachainn can be taken as a mistaken transcription of Mac Caiman the
reference would be to the minister of Lismore.
2 The Beatons had been hereditary physicians to the Lords of the
Isles.